New Materials WG 1 Member, Functional Magnetic Materials, LINXS Fellow

Pablo Villanueva works at the Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Physics Department, Lund University. He started his scientific career as a PhD student in theoretical high energy physics. He did his PhD at the University of Valencia under the supervision of Prof. J. Bernabeu and F. Martinez-Vidal. His PhD offered him the opportunity to become a member of the BaBar collaboration at SLAC (USA). While working at SLAC, he attended several lectures about X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and their applications. This new technology fascinated him so much that he decided to change his research field radically from theoretical high energy Physics to X-ray imaging after his PhD.
His first postdoc was in the TOMCAT group of Prof. Marco Stampanoni (X-ray tomography group) at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland). This postdoc offered him the opportunity to perform experiments and simulations using state-of-the-art X-ray imaging techniques. After three years at TOMCAT, he decided to start a second postdoctoral project at the Center for Free-electron laser science in DESY (Germany) in Prof. Henry Chapman's group.